· Private foundation
McGraw Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 95 grants below total $495,753 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $543,503 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k85 grants · $260k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Associated Colleges of Illinois | $100,000 |
| Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation | $25,000 |
| Allendale Association | $16,500 |
| St. Margaret of Scotland School | $15,000 |
| Allendale Association | $15,000 |
| St. John De La Salle School | $14,000 |
| St. Helen School | $14,000 |
| St. Ferdinand School | $14,000 |
| St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy School | $12,500 |
| Windy Hill Foundation | $10,000 |
| St. Frances of Rome School | $9,000 |
| St. Constance School | $8,000 |
| Family Matters | $8,000 |
| St. Bartholomew School | $8,000 |
| DePaul University Family Law Center | $7,500 |
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Star farm chicago is an urban farm in the back of the yards neighborhood that seeks to increase accessibility and of locally grown organic produce through affordable farm stands, csas, year-round farmers markets participation, food…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…
The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESTORING THE PATH ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE DUNDEE TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Alain Locke Charter School ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · James Lessing Kleeblatt Memorial Foundation Inc · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · MRC Full Circle Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.